¶ Second edition of this biography, first published in 1651, four years after Frederick Henry's death. The work gives an account of all the important events which occurred in Holland between 1627 and 1647. Among the Dutch undertakings during the government of Frederick Henry was the seizure of northern Brazil. The book contains a long passage about this event. - Borba de Moraes, Bibliogr. Brasiliana, p. 194 (first edition); Haitsma Mulier/v.d. Lem, 117b; De Buck, 2382; Atlas v. Stolk, 1933 (first ed.). Click here to view image

¶ All the maps & plans were drawn by Nic. v. Geelkerken on a reduced scale after Pontanus's Historia (1639) on which Van Slichtenhorst also based this work. The first part of the book is a geographical, the second a historical & for a large part genealogical description of Gelderland. - Nijhoff/v. Hattum, 281; Gouda Quint, p. 8; Haitsma Mulier/v.d. Lem, 444a. Click here to view image

¶ First French edition of Ludovico Guicciardini's 'Descrittione di tutti Paesi Bassi' of which the first edition appeared in 1567. Guicciardini (1521-89), Italian businessman and author, left Italy in 1538 and settled down in Antwerp. His 'Descrittione' is the first detailed description of the principalities and cities of the Low Countries, which assured the author instant fame. The first copperengraved edition appeared in Italian in 1581. This second copperengraved edition was enlarged with 23 plans. - Tiele, 423; Guicciardini Illustratus, p. 40-45; Voet, 1278; see also at length H. de la Fontaine Verwey. Uit de wereld v.h. boek II, pp. 9-31. Click here to view image

¶ Rare complete first (second 1625) edition of an important work on the founding years of Leiden University. With the fine large folding plate of a 'triumphant' train of the founders and faculties (allegorically represented here). Among the portrayed are famous men as Grotius, Dousa, Scaliger, Clusius, Dodonaeus, etc. - Willems, 237 note; Rahir, 1802; Van Someren I, 148; Haitsma Mulier/Van der Lem, 334k (ed. 1625). Click here to view image

¶ The maps in this atlas, based on the surveys of Zeeland by the Hattinga's, are also found in Tirion's Hand Atlas. The views are often of striking beauty and were executed by H. Spilman & J.C. Philips after the famous artist C. Pronk. Click here to view image